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Forwards Proposed Changes to Amend 5 Describing Procurement at Regional Ofcs,In Response to 810720 Telcon
ML20009E664
Person / Time
Site: 05000584
Issue date: 07/21/1981
From: Keddis N
GIBBS & HILL, INC. (SUBS. OF DRAVO CORP.)
To: Spraul J
NRC
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NUDOCS 8107280344
Download: ML20009E664 (5)


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Per our telephone conversation on July 20, 1981, we herewith submitting a copy of the proposed changes to Amendment 5 which describes procurement at our regional offices.

Regarding your concern on QA we have also attached page 8 of cubsection 17.1.1.4 which states that the QA Department is responsible for surveillance and auditing of procurement at all G&H offices.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Very truly yours, GIBBS & HILL, INC.

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personnel assigned to staff a particular project and work as a team under the administrative respansibility of a

project manager.

All regional offices are headed by a Vice President-Ma' nager Regional Office.

These Vice Fresidents-Managers report to the Senior Vice President-Regional Operations, who in turn reports to the Executive Vice President.

All nuclear safety-related engineering and design activities at

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the regional offices are headed by a Manager Nuclear Operations or a

Manager of Engineering, who reports to the Vice President-Manager Regional Office.

Project

Fanagers, Chief Engineers and design personnel report to the Manager, Nuclear Operations or Manager of Engineering.

.Each of their departments supply technical personnel assigned to staff a particular project and work as a team under tFe administrative responsibility of a

project manager.

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-Pnefs Procurement Department is headed by the Manager Purchasing I

who repccts to the Senior Vice President, New York Project Operations through the Assistant to the Senior Vice President. '$

The Manager Purchasing is responsible for the establishment and CorpoM 5

list of approved bidders for nuclear maintenance of a4 L

safety-related items and services; coordinates preparation of the Instructi on to Bidders and Terms and Conditions sections of the Amendment 5 June 1981 -

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procurement document; and administers all purchasing.

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expediting aspects related to procurement functions.

---1> Sec. TOscrY k Construction activity within G&H is headed by-the Senior Vice President, Construction who reports directly. to the President.

However, for quality assurance related matters, the Senior Vice f

President, Construction, is accountable to the Executive Vice President.

This procedure is applicable to construction activities being performed as part of a G&H project.

i The G&H Senior Vice President, Construction is also the-3 President, of Dravo Utilities Constructors, Inc.

(DUCI),

a wholly-owned subsidiary of G&H.

The G&H QA Manager also serves as the DUCI QA Manager, thus maintaining uniformity ano control g

of the QA and Quality Control (QC) activities of both companies.

DUCI performs QC activities related to vendor shop surveillance services and construction-site functions as required by G&H.

In performing these services DUCI utilizes and is governed by those approved programs and procedures developed by G&H.

Although DUCI QC personnel repor; adminstratively to the DUCI Vice President, i

Administrative Services, who in turn reports to the President of DUCI, their technical direction comes from G&H QA.

The DUCI-organization is shown on Figure 17.1-2.

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The Senior Vice President, New York Project Operations; Senior b

Vice President, Regional Operations; Vice President, Consulting l

Engineering, Quality Assurance and New Technology; and Senior t

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Procurement activities in the regional offices are headed by a Manager Purchasing who is responsible to the Vice President-Manager Regional Office.

The Managers Purchasing are responsible for coordinating preparation of Instructions to Bidders and Terms and conditions sections of the procurement document; administering all purchasing and expediting aspects related to procurement-functions and coordinating with the Manager Purchasing, New York Office the establishment and maintenance of the corporate list _of. approved bidders-for nuclear safety related items and services.

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t construction phases of at least one nuclear power plant.

The organization of the QA Department is shown on Figure 17.1-4.

The QA Department has four main functional responsibilities:

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to establish and approve QA and QC requirements and criteria; b.

to review engineering and design documents for procurement and construction to verify that all nuclear safety requirements have been incorporated; c.

to provide -surveillance of all QA activities in the New York and regional

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engineering and design, procurement, and construction phases to determine that all on-line and specified independent design ve ri fication procedures and quality control procedures have, in fact been applied to all processes-engineering,

design, procurement, manufacture, fabrication, assembly, construction, erection, installation, and preparation for startup; and that all activities have been properly documented, whether at G&H facilities or at facilities of suppliers, constructors, and their subcontractors (to the extent of G&H contractual obligations to the Utility Owner); and d.

to audit at regular interv als, by examination and evaluation, the objective evidence provided by documentation accumulated internally and externally in the normal course-of the processes involved and during surveillance activities at G&H offices, at the supplier's facilities, and at 5

the nuclear plant site.

Audits are performed by the Gedi QA Department or by G&H Management, as aT plicable, in 'accordance with written procedures and checklists to verify compliance with g

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